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Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike’s bogus DMCA takedown

Doesn’t CrowdStrike have more important things to do right now than try to take down a parody site?

That’s what IT consultant David Senk wondered when CrowdStrike sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice targeting his parody site ClownStrike.

Senk created ClownStrike in the aftermath of the largest IT outage the world has ever seen—which CrowdStrike blamed on a buggy security update that shut down systems and incited prolonged chaos in airports, hospitals, and businesses worldwide…

otter ,

clownstrike.lol/crowdmad/

This line:

P.S. Don’t your lawyers have more important shit to be doing right now anyway?

NegativeLookBehind ,
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

I love this

dan , (edited )
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I don’t see anything on the parody ClownStrike site that infringes the DMCA. At best, Crowdstrike might have a valid trademark infringement claim, but DMCA is only for copyright infringement claims, not trademark claims.

anon_8675309 ,

They should have used their software to bring it down. We all know that will do it.

djvinniev77 ,

You sonofa… Made me spill my drink…

lennivelkant ,

…provided it runs on CrowdStrike-protected systems. I would expect the site’s operator to make sure to avoid that if they can help it.

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Clown Strike’s only real crime is kerning.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/891ba4cf-484e-4b9f-beec-6c11d27646ed.png

snekmuffin ,

thats not kerning, that’s justification ☝️🤓️

kerning refers to the spacing between individual letters in the words, and justification is a method of typograghic alignment where space between words is stretched to make text flush with both left and right margins

troybot ,

My name is Nathan Fielder, And I graduated from one of Canada’s top business schools with really good grades.

The plan: turn this website into the world’s first parody cybersecurity platform

__init__ ,

We will call it… Dumb Crowdstrike.

Sentient_Modem ,

Funny that clownstrike.com redirects to crowdstrike.com. I tried this before seeing the .lol domain. Lol

roofuskit ,

Using the DMCA as a censorship tool needs to be a criminal offense subject to jail time.

4am ,

Why that’s literally what it was designed to do

rezifon ,

DMCA was designed to prevent intellectual property infringement, not as a censorship tool.

Ransack ,

Yes that’s exactly what the person you replied to was saying.

DMCA was built to save IP, however it’s routinely abused and used for censorship. And not a single thing is done to the abusers so they continue with their nonsense.

lvxferre ,
@lvxferre@mander.xyz avatar

Apparently, Cloudflare never received either of Senk’s counter notices, which is a problem since Cloudflare only allows a 72-hour window to contest a takedown notice.

This sounds like ClownFlare outright lying through its teeth. Probably not even to defend ClownStrike, but to not look incompetent.

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/18e0c043-ccb0-4a33-8328-4671fac59ee4.png

lennivelkant ,

I think it’s time to expand the Clown-Empire and add ClownSocialServices.lol and ClownFlare to its Vassals.
What do we call the head of state? The Witish Clown?

jabathekek ,
@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz avatar

While parody sites are not the intended target of these efforts, it’s possible for such sites to be inadvertently impacted. We will review the process and, where appropriate, evolve ongoing anti-fraud activities.

Hmm, I think I’ve heard something like that before…

But it pledged Wednesday to keep software glitches like last week’s from happening again, and to publicly release a more detailed analysis when it becomes available.

The company added that it is developing a new check for its validation system “to guard against this type of problematic content from being deployed in the future.

“Oops!”

conciselyverbose ,

told Ars that he has no plans to move ClownStrike back to Cloudflare’s hosting service. Instead, he responded by suggesting that Cloudflare update its abuse-reporting system to confirm receipt of counter notices, build a web portal where users can track abuse reports,

Good suggestions

and perhaps most significantly, revoke CSC’s ability to submit abuse reports as a penalty for sending a bogus takedown

Pretty sure they can’t. DMCA has strict rules that providers must follow to avoid liability.

AceFuzzLord ,

Imagine believing that large enough companies would be so heinous as to follow the law. What villains they’d be!

/s

Imgonnatrythis ,

Maybe laylow and STFU crowdstrike? You know what never mind, pour fuel on the fire burning below you - go out screaming you turds.

solsangraal ,

way to go, dorks. now i’ve heard of this site that i would have never heard of if you hadn’t streissanded it. and i for one approve

Shadow ,
@Shadow@lemmy.ca avatar

Sounds like they could use some more sites linking to them to improve SEO. clownstrike.lol

thisbenzingring ,

It’s blocked on my work computer, saying it’s a malware website

All_Your_Base ,
@All_Your_Base@feddit.cl avatar

“The category of clownstrike.lol is Phishing

This site has been reviewed recently. We are not accepting category change requests at this time.”

Fortinet filter lmao

lennivelkant ,

Accessible through my corporate network. Fun thing, that.

LazaroFilm ,
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

Full Streisand effect.

AbsoluteChicagoDog ,

This. This is why we invented the internet. Well this and porn.

grubbyweasel ,

this is so tame lmao

systemglitch ,

That was a good read with him documenting and sharing everything.

Hildegarde , (edited )

I am illiterate ignore me.

>Senk received a DMCA notice from Cloudflare’s trust and safety team, which was then hosting the parody site.

Cloudflare sent themselves a DMCA takedown notice, instead of just taking down the content from their own web hosting for violating their policies. Weird.

mark ,
@mark@infosec.pub avatar

Cloudflare and Crowdstrike are different companies.

Hildegarde ,

ooooooopppppps someday I will learn to read

Lost_My_Mind ,

Where have I heard that before…

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